Policy problematization

Webb, P. Taylor

doi:10.1080/09518398.2012.762480

Cited by 74 publications

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“…Besides analyzing difficulties and pointing to possible solutions in the implementation of public policy, different schools of thought have developed, ranging from the critical and interpretative (e.g. Bacchi, 2000Bacchi, , 2009Webb, 2014;Yanow, 2007) to the more evidence-based and instrumental stand (e.g. Davies & Nutley, 2000; for a critique of this, see Sanderson, 2002).…”

Section: Development and Statusmentioning

confidence: 99%

Contextualizing Policy: Understanding Implementation under Socio-technical Transitions

Sørensen

Paulsson

2019

International Journal of Public Administration

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Over the past 40 years, implementation of public policy has been developed into a mature but heterogenous field of research. Despite much attention paid to the context in which implementation occurs, studies thus far has only to a limited extent been concerned with how major sociotechnological transitions affect the conditions for implementing policy. As societies experience major socio-technological transitions that radically change our ways of living and working, these changes also affect the implementation process. But how? This paper explores how theories of socio-technological changes can be drawn upon to add layers of explanations to a canonized model of integrated implementation. Recent technological developments in the transport sector are applied to this discussion to illustrate the usefulness of the suggested layered approach. The paper concludes by suggesting how the integrated implementation model and implementation theory can be combined.

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Section: Development and Statusmentioning

confidence: 99%

Contextualizing Policy: Understanding Implementation under Socio-technical Transitions

Sørensen

Paulsson

2019

International Journal of Public Administration

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“…The underlying conviction among Foucault-influenced poststructuralists that governmental problematizations shape who we are and how we live leads Bacchi to build into the WPR approach a practice of self-problematization (see also Webb, 2014). To this end researchers and policy makers/workers are enjoined to seek out possible forms of domination in their own proposals and problematizations by subjecting them to the six questions that make up the approach.…”

Section: Political Agendasmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Turn to Problematization: Political Implications of Contrasting Interpretive and Poststructural Adaptations

Bacchi¹

2015

OJPS

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The purpose of this paper is to introduce and elaborate the varied meanings of problematization in contemporary policy theory. The primary focus is on the different meanings and uses of the term in interpretivism and in Foucault-influenced poststructuralism. The paper argues that interpretive/argumentative adaptations direct attention primarily to how policy makers/workers develop problematizations (ways of understanding a problem) while Foucault-influenced poststructuralists critically scrutinize problematizations (the ways in which "problems" are produced and represented) in governmental policies and practices. It concludes that Foucault-influenced adaptations provide a more substantive critique of extant social arrangements than interpretive approaches, which tend to be reformist in design and inclination.

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“…Objective or evidence‐based policies are essentially truth claims by the policy makers. Yet Duchamp wryly notes (as cited in Webb ), at times ‘there is no solution because there is no problem’ or rather, the problem does not exist in practice in the same way that it is framed in the policy that is meant to ‘solve’ it. The ‘failure’ of stand‐alone policies, that is policies that are created without taking account of the social, political, economic and historical context(s), including those intended for example to address the health needs of Indigenous communities, testify to this.…”

Section: Claim Two: Policies Solve Problemsmentioning

confidence: 99%